Evidence of disorientation towards immunization on online social media after contrasting political communication on vaccines. Results from an analysis of Twitter data in Italy

• Samantha Ajovalasit ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: samantha.ajovalasit@unive.it

  Affiliations Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Department of Environmental Science, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5968-8880

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• Veronica Maria Dorgali,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications "G. Parenti" (DISIA), University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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• Angelo Mazza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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• Alberto d’Onofrio,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France

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• Piero Manfredi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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